'Django Unchained' -- 2 stars

R; 2:45 running time How much you enjoy the most vicious acts of violence will relate directly to your response to the vengeance fantasies in "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's previous film, a popular, nutty rewrite of World War II. By the time the filmmaker's latest arrives at its astoundingly bloody finale, Foxx's Django has become a proto-Shaft, a Trouble Man for troubled times. He's crossed 110th Street and gone all the way to a storybook version of the pre-Civil War-era South, where justice and bodies must be served. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "Django Unchained" movie review

R; 2:45 running time How much you enjoy the most vicious acts of violence will relate directly to your response to the vengeance fantasies in "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's previous film, a popular, nutty rewrite of World War II. By the time the filmmaker's latest arrives at its astoundingly bloody finale, Foxx's Django has become a proto-Shaft, a Trouble Man for troubled times. He's crossed 110th Street and gone all the way to a storybook version of the pre-Civil War-era South, where justice and bodies must be served. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "Django Unchained" movie review

R; 2:45 running time How much you enjoy the most vicious acts of violence will relate directly to your response to the vengeance fantasies in "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's previous film, a popular, nutty rewrite of World War II. By the time the filmmaker's latest arrives at its astoundingly bloody finale, Foxx's Django has become a proto-Shaft, a Trouble Man for troubled times. He's crossed 110th Street and gone all the way to a storybook version of the pre-Civil War-era South, where justice and bodies must be served. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "Django Unchained" movie review